Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Inclusion | Exclusion | |
|---|---|---|
Population | - Qualified dentists, dental therapists, dental hygienists, and dental nurses. - Delivery to the adult population. | - Unqualified dentists, dental therapists, dental hygienists, and dental nurses. Other non-dental professionals. - Delivery to children. - Specialised populations such as: pregnant women, geriatric patients, those with special health needs e.g., cancer, diabetes & HIV, those with mental health disorders, those with eating disorders, those with special educational needs, patients suffering from dental anxiety, homeless people, refugees, and prisoners. |
Concept | - The elicitation of information on barriers and facilitators to preventive oral health care. - Prevention can include broadly preventive measures to oral hygiene or specific strategies such as the use of fluoride varnishes, floss, sealants, toothpastes (as long as prevention is explicitly expressed, and barriers and facilitators are discussed). - Any preventive advice that can be offered chair side by a trained dental professional and not requiring specialist training. | - Studies which did not address, understand, or investigate barriers and facilitators to preventive oral health care or explicitly state that an item was a barrier or facilitator. - Studies that compared the outcome of prevention over restorative care without addressing reasons for differences or addressing barriers/facilitators to prevention. - Studies which included measures such as the number/percentage of preventive approaches used or provided information about prevention without including any information on barriers/ facilitators to prevention. - Specific smoking cessation programmes, HPV (Human papillomavirus) advice, tailored diet interventions, information not routinely delivered in general dental practice. - Studies where multiple populations were included, and the findings could not be differentiated between groups. |
Context | - General dental practice. - Any developed economy as defined by United Nations country classifications [19]. - Studies published after 1996. - Studies available in English. | - Any settings that are not the general dental practice such as hospital settings, care homes, academia, primary care. - Any country not defined as a developed economy by the United Nations country classification [19]. - Studies published before 1996. - Studies not available in English as there was no funding for translation. |